Tom Tykwer | |
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.jpg) Tykwer at the Berlin Film Festival | |
| Born | 23 May 1965 |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, film composer |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Spouse |
Marie Steinmann (m. 2009) |
| Children | 1 |
Tom Tykwer (German: [ˈtɪkvɐ]; born 23 May 1965)[1] is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009). He collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012) and the Netflix series Sense8 (2015–2018), and worked on the score for Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Tykwer is also well known as the co-creator of the internationally acclaimed German television series Babylon Berlin (2017–).
- ^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, ed. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 488. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.